Thirty-two hubs. Which transfers are real, which ground transport is legitimate, the opening moves used on travellers, and a transfer-difficulty grade you can actually plan around. Free, about eight minutes.
Why this exists. Most of my career was finance, governance and controls - Texaco, then Shell and Motiva - and a great deal of it was spent moving through airports on the way to somewhere that mattered. The two turned out to be the same discipline. Every approach in this guide has the shape of every control failure I ever looked into: an approach, a pretext you cannot check on the spot, and a clock that stops you checking. Learn the shape once and you stop needing the list.
Companion to The Unwritten Brief and the essay Everybody Goes Home Safe.
The Airport Brief
It is the transfer you were told was 60 minutes, and the car you took because the queue looked long.
Which airport?
Thirty-two hubs weighted toward business travel. Type a city, a country or a code.
Your conditions
These change what the brief shows you and which calls you get.
The calls
No trick answers. Pick what you would actually do.
Your read-out
The Airport Brief covers the ground. The Unwritten Brief covers everything after it - the dinner, the gift, the fee at the port, the meeting where everyone said yes.